Historical Newspapers

This research guide gathers historical U. S. newspapers that are available online and at no cost, including those available through newspaperarchives.com, the Google News Historical Archives, Chronicling America (Library of Congress), and state archives.

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The Tennessee Newspaper Project (TNP) is part of the United States Newspaper Program, a national effort to locate, catalog, preserve on microfilm, and make accessible, newspapers published in the United States from the earliest colonial days to the present. Tennessee's project is based in Knoxville at the University of Tennessee Libraries.

The project does not have any newspapers. It maintains a database of information of American newspaper holdings in the state of Tennessee and has access to information on the holdings in libraries across the country. Some papers can be borrowed through interlibrary loan; contact your local interlibrary loan department or the holdings institution listed in the database here for more information on accessing a newspaper.

The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Funding is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Technical assistance is furnished by the Library of Congress.

Note the University Libraries holdings for these Tennessee newspapers.

For full text of an article within a newspaper date that the University Libraries do not have: please contact our Interlibrary Loan office at ill_borrowing@memphis.edu and be sure to include article details such as date, publication, page information, etc.)

The Memphis Weekly Appeal-Avalanche (merges with Memphis Weekly Commercial and Memphis Weekly Commercial Appeal in 1894 to become the Commercial Appeal in 1894): The University Libraries owsn microfilm for 1890-1894.

The Helmsman and the Daily Helmsman

Want to look through older issues of The Helmsman and The Daily Helmsman, the official, independent newspaper distributed to students, faculty and staff at Memphis State University and the University of Memphis?